[spectre] New podcast: Vincent Meessen talks about the politics of making versus the politics of showing, and about how to revivify lost or dying colonial memories in the present.

[Radio Web MACBA]

*New podcast:  <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/vincent-meessen-main/capsula>**Vincent
Meessen  <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/vincent-meessen-main/capsula>*talks
about
journeys, uprisings, and metaphors, about work cooperatives, music groups
and constructed scenarios, about the politics of making versus the politics
of showing, and about how to revivify lost or dying colonial memories in
the present.

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/vincent-meessen-main/capsula

Practice-based research on location as a catalyst for stories, and the
dissolving of his own work into that of others, are two of the recurring
elements that run through the work of Baltimore-born artist Vincent
Meessen. His multifaceted investigations – which he shares in the form of
moving images, publications, sounds, installations and para-curatorial
activities – connect an extensive network of collaborators and establish an
absorbing structure of narratives capable of metabolising the encounter
with totally unexpected characters and events. The discovery of colonial
cognitive tests used to measure the capacity for abstraction in the
Congolese population, the “invention” of the first local abstract artists
by Belgian collectors, and the emergence of May 1968 protest songs written
by a Congolese student affiliated to the Situationist International, are
examples of projects in which Meessen identifies eccentric, unexplored
episodes and reworks them based on a methodology that, he says, has a
metamorphic value: to keep moving.

*Timeline*
*02:44* 'Patterns for (Re)cognition'
*07:05* Colonial agents, pioneers of modern art
*09:44* An apparatus to avoid being trapped
*10:47* The invention of the other
*12:17* Intuition and location
*14:30* Shaping the tools we need
*17:28* Situationists in Congo
*22:12* The way you do it
*23:52* A question for everybody

E/N/J/O/Y/ <http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/vincent-meessen-main/capsula>
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